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California Proposition 4, Tide, Submerged, and Overflowed Lands Initiative (1936)
| California Proposition 4 | |
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| Election date November 3, 1936 | |
| Topic Natural resources | |
Status Defeated | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
California Proposition 4 was on the ballot as an initiated state statute in California on November 3, 1936. It was defeated.
A “yes” vote supported allowing the Director of Finance to lease tide, submerged, or overflowed lands for extracting oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons at 14 and 2/7% royalty, prohibiting drilling on all other tide, submerged, or overflowed lands, prohibiting the pollution of tide, ocean, bay, or inlet waters, and using half the money collected from such leases to acquire, improve, and maintain beaches and parks |
A “no” vote opposed allowing the Director of Finance to lease tide, submerged, or overflowed lands for extracting oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons at 14 and 2/7% royalty, prohibiting drilling on all other tide, submerged, or overflowed lands, prohibiting the pollution of tide, ocean, bay, or inlet waters, and using half the money collected from such leases to acquire, improve, and maintain beaches and parks |
Election results
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California Proposition 4 |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
| Yes | 971,569 | 47.33% | ||
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1,081,346 | 52.67% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Proposition 4 was as follows:
| “ | Prohibiting Tideland Surface Oil Drilling. Authorizing Slant Drilling From Uplands | ” |
Ballot summary
The ballot summary for this measure was:
| “ | Initiative. Prohibits drilling from surface of tide, submerged or overflowed lands not heretofore leased or allocated. Authorizes Director of Finance on behalf of State to execute thirty-year subsurface leases upon fourteen and two-sevenths per cent royalty to State for extracting oil, gas or other hydrocarbons from beneath tide, submerged and overflowed lands by wells slanted from uplands, prohibiting pollution of tide, ocean, bay or inlet waters. Directs one-half State revenue from such leases be used to acquire, improve and maintain beaches and parks. Repeals conflicting legislation. | ” |
Full Text
The full text of this measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
In California, the number of signatures required for an initiated state statute is equal to 8 percent. For initiated statutes filed in 1936, at least 186,378 valid signatures were required.
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